Acting Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

— Freddie Stroma

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism…

— Alessandro Nivola

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not…

— Dakota Fanning

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who…

— James Spader

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

— Julianna Margulies

Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

— Michael Gambon

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

— John Lithgow

If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming…

— Victor Rasuk

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.

— Anna Paquin